Nearly 12 percent of US women struggle with infertility. Some common causes of female infertility include uterine myomas (fibroids), endometriosis or prior tubal ligation. Join Dr. Montalto to learn how the da Vinci Surgical System can support a surgeon's ability to offer minimally invasive fertility sparing procedures to more patients.

Dr. Montalto specializes in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of endometriosis, infertility, and uterine fibroids. He has performed numerous procedures for fertility and gynecological disorders and is currently the Director of Robotic Surgery at Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, NY.

This Self Defense seminar is a compilation of Safety and Prevention tips that stress awareness and the need to learn how to identify potentially dangerous situations. Master Bennett also suggests the use of non-traditional weapons that can be used to help facilitate an escape during a physical confrontation.

Master Keith Bennett is the owner and director of Keith Bennett's Karate Academy since 1990. He holds the rank of 6th Degree Black Belt/Master and has a PhD in Martial Arts Studies. At Keith Bennett's Karate each student benefits from self-discipline, leadership, confidence, self defense, goal setting and fitness. Under Master Bennett's guidance, thousands of students have benefited from Martial Arts and the community has thrived through his schools endless fundraising for local charities.

Living Well in Spite of Endometriosis: 12:30-1:30

Heather Guidone & Dr. Sallie Sarrel

Join Heather Guidone & Dr. Sallie Sarrel for an educational workshop featuring authoritative education on endometriosis, a disease affecting 176 million women and girls globally for which there is no cure. This presentation will provide information to enable patients and caregivers to make educated decisions about their treatment options, provide resources for further care, present hands-on techniques to use in one's every day life, and convey positive ways in which women and girls with the disease can overcome the illness and manage well in spite of it.

Heather Guidone has been the Center for Endometriosis Care's Surgical Program Director since mid-2005 and has held a position on the Board of Directors of the Endometriosis Research Center since 1997. She is also serving out a two-year elected term on the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's Executive Board of the Women's Council. She is a women's health professional with a dedicated interest in female reproductive issues - specifically endometriosis and pelvic pain gynepathology - who has served the clinical and consumer health industries for nearly twenty-five years in various capacity. Continually striving to promote education and advocacy while facilitating clinical research within the minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and endometriosis communities, she is also a woman who has experienced Stage IV endometriosis, adenomyosis and primary infertility herself.

Sallie Sarrel, PT, DPT, ATC is a renowned leader in physical therapy for pelvic pain, with a specific focus on endometriosis and gynepathologies. Sallie received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from UMDNJ and has a Master's of Education from the University of Vermont with a dual focus in Sports Medicine and Nutrition Education. She has spent more than ten years studying manual medicine with specialties in both cranial sacral therapy and visceral manipulation. She also lectures on Gynepathology at UMDNJ. Her dedicated work in Women's Health is driven by her own battles with pelvic pain and endometriosis. Considered a leading authority on endometriosis and pelvic pain, through one-on-one treatment, she is able to give each patient her unique outlook on wellness. Her experiences inspire her to treat with the utmost compassion, honesty, and passion for her patients.

Neal Smoller will look at the myths vs the facts of the Supplement Industry. He will discuss poor regulations and examine how companies cut corners to maximize profit, decreasing effectiveness. With many preparations lacking the purity, potency, and consistency necessary for them to be beneficial to health, how do patients execute proper due diligence before selecting nutritional products? Neal will offer guidelines and pearls of wisdom to help in selecting the proper vitamin companies and products to use. Moreover, he explain that with a proper diet, many supplements are unnecessary.

Neal Smoller is the proprietor of two pharmacies, Village Apothecary in Saugerties and Woodstock Apothecary in Woodstock. Village Apothecary is an old-fashioned community pharmacy offering personalized service, even curbside assistance and free home delivery for those who need it. A true apothecary, they practice the art of compounding, formulating medications and remedies for patients based on patient-specific factors rather than just issuing drugs from the major manufacturers.

In this interactive and experiential workshop, you will be empowered with simple, practical and highly effective techniques for self healing. You will learn and experience:

What the Four Power Techniques are and how to apply them to heal yourself and others

What Say Hello Healing is

Simple, powerful techniques that anyone can do to boost energy, stamina, vitality and immunity

Master Elaine will transmit two permanent, priceless divine gifts to every participant. They are:

Divine Love, which melts all blockages and transforms all life

Divine Forgiveness, which brings inner joy and inner peace

You will also learn how to invoke and practice with these permanent divine healing and blessing treasures to maximize the benefits you can receive.

Every participant will also receive a group Divine Healing Hands blessings for any aspect of life. Select participants may receive a soul reading and other divine frequency blessings to remove soul, mind and body blockages for healing and transformation.

Master Elaine Ward is a powerful healer, teacher and soul communicator. A Divine Channel and Reader of the Akashic Records, she is one of only 20+ Worldwide Representatives of Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha, world-renowned healer, NY Times bestselling author and humanitarian. She is also honored to be one of Master Sha's editors.

With divine inspiration and a compassionate heart, she helps others to identify and understand their life challenges and empowers them with soul healing secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and practical techniques to transform all aspects of their life, including health, relationships and finances.

Food is Medicine. Food is Love. Food is Family, Celebration, Mourning, Culture, Comfort, Survival. We all share the experience. How can we do it a little better? Cause we all can improve.

Ever feel like there's so much information out there, you're not sure who or what to believe about Nutrition? Here's a way to make sense of it all. Get some perspective about what the USDA thinks is right for healthy Americans. Check in about some of the latest research. And then relate it to your busy life and your family's needs. You'll leave feeling reassured you're doing some good things already and have a bunch of new things to try. Get a few new ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner and get some questions answered.

Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN is a Masters level Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Vicki works with people of all ages promoting nutrition for wellness while addressing diverse chronic health conditions. Vicki works with a successful weight loss program, helping clients change habits for long-term results. She offers Wellness programs to businesses to create a healthier workplace. Working as a consultant to clients, healthy food companies, businesses, schools and organizations, Vicki communicates healthy nutrition information that makes it easier to move towards health.

As Consulting Nutritionist to Stonyfield Yogurt, she answers consumer questions and helps with new product development. She has consulted with doctors offices, schools, Head Start and taught Nutrition to Nutrition graduates. This diversity of experience provides Vicki with a broad perspective when speaking, counseling, consulting and writing; allowing her to specialize in Nutrition for Wellness.

Discover the ancient secret of natural healing practiced for centuries by people of the South Pacific that has stood the test of time. The medicinal use of Noni (Morinda Citrofolia), a tropical healing plant, has grown into a world wide sensation as more people become aware of its miraculous healing properties. Learn how you can harness the healing power of Noni with this lively and informative workshop that will cover a brief history of Noni, how it was cultivated and used from ancient to modern times and why it is still used today to cure many conditions that stump medical science.

Donna Greco, licensed physical therapist who lives locally in the Hudson Valley, experienced the healing power of the Noni tree first hand while living in the Caribbean, and has brought back her extensive knowledge of this wonderous plant. Her locally made unique skin care products are created with the botanicals of the Noni plant and are sold locally and worldwide.

Cognitive-Behavioral Methods for Managing Pain: 3:30-4:30

Dr. Ellen J. Cooper-Festa

There is a way for people to gain information about their pain in order to be better able to master managing it. Whether one has had recent, acute or long-term chronic pain, this method and cognitive set of strategies can be benficial. Join clinical psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Cooper-Festa and discover evidence-based theoretically-supported methods that are included in the cirriculum of several university chronic pain programs. This workshop will provide a set of skills that open the door to more independence and validation in the conversation of pain. Participants will leave with a more clinical, less emotional view of the effects of their pain and will also also gain personalized tips and ideas that may help them manage their pain more effectively.

Join Leslie Rolnick to discover what becoming an organized person really means in our busy lives! Being organized is not a one-time event, or about being meticulous, or sacrificing creativity, or being rigid. It is about having an easy to maintain system to provide reasonable control over your space, your paperwork, your time and your possessions. It is an ongoing process that gets tweaked as your needs change; and, it's about having a consistent structure because life can get messy! Being organized is about feeling less stressed and overwhelmed by your environment. It is a reflection of how you want to live, then developing new skills and habits to support your lifestyle.

This seminar will explore various organizational issues and provide an opportunity to identify what's working, what's not, and how to find solutions tailored to your needs. The good news is that you are not alone - everyone faces organizing challenges to one degree or another! Whatever the issue, this workshop will give you a way to start living a life that's in line with your interests, values, and goals. Being organized looks, feels and functions differently for everyone  let's work together to find your way!

Leslie Rolnick of Design Solutions is an experienced Professional Organizer, serving the Hudson Valley since 2000. She specializes in collaborating with her clients, coaching them to make lasting changes in their lives. Visit her website at: www.designsolutions-ny.com

FATGIRL Slim: 1:30-2:30

Jenna Seeley

FATGIRL slim's motto is "Gaining. Loosing. With you." Join Jenna for an honest, funny, spin on topics like: what it is like to be plus size (I once weighed 300 pounds), what it is like to battle eating disorders (been there, done that, overcame it!), food reviews, the plus size fashion industry, and being the fat girl in a fitness class. It is all about a fun weight loss approach!

Jenna is a wife, mother of two, foodie, kind of a fitness guru and former fat girl (down 110 pounds and counting). Jenna has struggled with her weight her entire life (starting her with early childhood in which she describes herself as being awkward and chunky). She knows what it is like to shop for plus size clothing (from having to find a size 18 prom dress that didn't resemble a shower curtain all the way to 3X maternity jeans). She is the uncoordinated woman in the back row of your Cardio Step class and the mother in your playgroup that doesn't know when to be quiet. She is the odd and thicker sister of the drop dead gorgeous- size 0- popular high school girl. She is the mother in the grocery store bribing her two impatient children (Yeah, OK...and husband) with cookies so she can have five seconds to read the nutrition labels. Jenna will offer real life tips, dieting tricks, recipes and daily inspiration (for the inner chunk in all of us) as she continues to sometimes win¦and sometimes loose...her weight battle. You can follow her weekly blog on Skinnymom.com!